The company's purpose is to acquire, hold and broker properties, as well as to use and sell them. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in companies in Switzerland and abroad, represent third parties and participate in all business that promotes the company's purpose or falls directly or indirectly within its scope of business. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans and/or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, whether against payment or not. The company may provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or through offset obligations, whether against payment or not, even if such financing, security or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved. The company may also acquire, register, manage, encumber and sell patents, licenses and intellectual property rights of all kinds.